Tonight, Belmopan police are looking for a man who ran after he was caught trying to smuggle over 20 pounds of weed from the Northern border into Belmopan. Police recovered the duffel bag full of drugs, but he got away.
At around 5:45 p.m. yesterday, police were acting on intelligence from Special Branch that a man was smuggling drugs on a bus. The cops set up a surveillance team at the Belmopan bus terminal. As soon as the suspect arrived on a Westline Bus, the cops moved in, but he spotted them while he was getting off.
He dropped his bag and ran off. The officers set chase but he got away.
The police searched the bag and found 10 separate parcels of marijuana to a total amount of 10.6 kilos or 23.4 pounds.
The man carrying this bag of drugs is known to police and listed as wanted. When he is found, he will be charged for drug trafficking.
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